Douglas County sheriff's deputies on Friday apprehended two suspects after a foot chase through the University of Kansas campus. The chase started a little after 1 p.m. when a deputy attempted to stop a green Honda Accord for failing to use a turn signal near the intersection of 10th and Missouri streets, said sheriff's spokesperson George Diepenbrock. The vehicle fled the scene and the deputy gave chase. The ...
A Lawrence man has pleaded no contest to lesser charges in a 2020 armed robbery case. The man, Michael Alexander Hormell, 22, pleaded to amended charges of burglary of a dwelling and two counts of criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, all felonies. He was originally charged with the felonies of aggravated robbery, criminal possession of a firearm and interference with law enforcement, ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Thursday Some Massachusetts Street businesses have had to deal with equipment repairs and closures this week in the wake of a power outage that was caused by a squirrel. The outage occurred after 7 p.m. Monday and may have caused significant damage to equipment at Jefferson’s Restaurant, 743 Massachusetts St., which prevented the restaurant from operating, said Marina Zickefoose, a ...
A man has been ordered to stand trial for rape in connection with a 2019 incident in Douglas County. The man, Antonio D. Dukes, 25, had a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, after which Judge Kay Huff determined there was enough evidence to bind him over for trial, according to court documents. Charges were first filed on June 14, 2021, and Dukes was later arrested on a warrant on Aug. 10. At the time of his ...
Did the attorneys for a Eudora day care worker do enough to oppose a coroner’s theory of how a baby she was caring for died? That’s the question Kansas Supreme Court justices grappled with — but did not decide — on Wednesday as they reviewed the case of Carrody Buchhorn, 47, of Eudora. Buchhorn was convicted in 2018 of second-degree murder in the death of 9-month-old Oliver “Ollie” Ortiz. She was ...
A Minnesota man has been charged with rape in connection with a 2021 incident in Douglas County. The man, Thomas J. Cormier, 21, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was charged with two counts of rape of a 21-year-old for an incident that allegedly occurred on Oct. 20, 2021, according charging documents in the case. Cormier was arrested around 9 a.m Thursday by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, according to the ...